天津市部分区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题汇编：完形填空

天津市部分区 2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编 完形填空 天津市和平区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末质量调查英语试卷 第二节:完形填空(共20小题, 每小题1. 5分, 满分30分) 阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从31-50题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。 The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to lovingly engage the homeless through art. In July 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife had just moved to Santa Ana, California with a burning desire in their hearts to love their neighbors. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a(n) 16 man was often yelling on the street corner, sometimes keeping them 17 at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to work as a car designer, but they never 18 . One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in action, when his 19 disturbed by the homeless man. 20 by the book’s compassionate (有同情心的) message, Peterson made a(n) 21 decision: He was going outside to introduce himself. In that first 22 , Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California to pursue a career 23 , but he soon fell on hard times and 24 living on the street for more than a decade. “It was a strange thing to me,” Peterson recalled later. “I saw 25 on the face of a man who hadn’t shaved in probably a year. And the 26 inside of him inspired me. ” 27 Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could 28 Faris’s portrait. And Faris said yes. Peterson’s 29 with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on 30 and painting portraits of members of the community who are unhoused. Peterson sells the 30-by-40-inch canvas(画布) — signed by both subject and artist—for a few thousand dollars, and put half into what he calls a “love account” for his 31 . Many of Peterson’s new friends use the donations to secure immediate 32 — medical care, hotel rooms, food. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, realizing his 33 dreams. Peterson has pa